I just finished reading an article about the Epic of Gilgamesh. At the end of the epic, before Gilgamesh talks with his dead clay/semi-human friend Enkidu, he learns from Utnapishtim, the Sumerian equivalent of Noah, that the gods won't give him immortality so he goes back to Uruk, his town he has left, and realizes, "If we mortals cannot have heaven, we can at least enjoy the comforts of our native city."
I think of Abraham, who did the opposite, left Ur and started out on the journey of Man with God, toward the eventual reintegration of the sacred and the secular, the mortal and the immortal... etc etc etc.
Peace,
Chris
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There is a sermon in there somewhere.
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